Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Albany, NY

July 1, 2001Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2001, 1:11 PM EDT for Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 79 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 2001, 1:11 PM EDT (17:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2001, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 79 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Herkimer County, NY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 1, 8:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

102 
WUUS51 KALY 011711
SVRALY
NYC043-011830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
111 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HERKIMER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 103 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM MCKEEVER TO 38 MILES WEST OF
  CEDAR LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  THENDARA AND OLD FORGE AT 115 PM EDT
  MCKEEVER AT 120 PM EDT
  FIRST LAKE AT 135 PM EDT
  ATWELL AND NORTH WILMURT AT 155 PM EDT
  CEDAR LAKE AT 200 PM EDT
  GRANT AND NORTHWOOD AT 205 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER NOW.

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 11:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 11:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1115 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2001

ANOTHER QUICK UPDT TO ADD WW 486 TO BAL OF DIST XCP
EXTRM SRN...WITH SMALL OVERLAP. SCT TSTMS ALG 20NNW KRUT-
KN66 ATTM...MORE CONVECTION INVOF CDFNT ALG LK ERIE.

.ALY...NY ERN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 200 PM EDT
                ZONES 32 33 38 42
                SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 400 PM EDT
                ZONES 39>43  47>54 58>61
 VT EXTRM SRN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL 4 PM ZONES 13 14
 MA EXTRM WRN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL 4 PM ZONE 1
        CT NW...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 1, 12:15 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1215 PM EDT SUN JUL 01 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1211 PM    SPEIGLETOWN               NY   .88 INCH HAIL
07/01/01   RENSSELAER

Local storm report, Jul 1, 12:38 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1238 PM EDT SUN JUL 01 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 t
1200 PM    LATHAM                    NY   WIND DAMAGE
07/01/01   ALBANY                         SEVERAL TREES DOWN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 9:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer	62 min
Jul 1, 12:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	60 min
Jul 1, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	67 min
Jul 1, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	64 min
Jul 1, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	80 min
Jul 1, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany	56 min
Jul 1, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga	63 min
Jul 1, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	78 min
Jul 1, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	59 min
Jul 1, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	66 min
Jul 1, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	58 min
Jul 1, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.